Saturday, January 10, 2009

Ahhhhh...Bulgarian

So I am a bit overwhelmed with Bulgarian today. There is SOO much to learn. I feel like I will never be able to communicate. I love you Ivan...but your language is hard. I had my lesson this morning and I learned MORE PRONOUNS. I didn't think there could possibly be any more pronouns. I hate pronouns. The annoying thing about pronouns is that you have to analyze the entire sentence to figure out which pronoun you should use. Than there are two forms for every pronoun and depending on which form you use you have to put it in a different place. AHHHHHH...PRONOUNS!! I think I am just going to speak pronoun-less Bulgarian. I think I will get by just fine, the only problem will be that no one will know what belongs to who nad "IT" will not exist (but that is not very important).

Things are going well other than trying to learn Bulgarian. I hope I am not an inconvience for Ivan's parents. Ivan's dad drives me to my lesson and picks me up. I wish I could be a little bit more independent so they didn't have to arrange their schedule around me. But we are getting by okay.

I am taking tomorrow off from my lesson. I think I need a day of rest for my mind. Plus I have a lot of things to review and practice. My lessons are good but we are moving pretty fast through a lot of grammer and new vocabulary. It is so annoying when a word won't stick in my head. I can learn it over and over and over but it just doesn't stick. I guess you learn the words you need to know and the ones you use the most.

Ivan's mom is really funny when we review my homework. Last night I was working on my adjectives and nouns and she would go find the ojbects and show them too me. She said I need to see and touch them and that will help the word stick. I think we both got a little frustrated with Bulgarian grammer last night. She said my lessons are getting harder. We are a good team.

Well I guess that is about all there is to say. Sorry if my Blog is not as exciting. My life now is mostly filled with studying Bulgarian. I will write again soon!!

3 comments:

  1. Very exciting. You're always very exciting.

    Ivan told us that he never realized how difficult Bulgarian was until he started teaching you. Luckily for you, you're very very smart. Unluckily for Bulgarian, you'll kick its batooty all over the place.

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  2. I am hoping that you don't come home speaking English with a Bulgarian accent. One in the Lupov family that does that is enough!!! I am still excited about all the new Bulgarian food you will be making us. Yummmm!! We may not know how to pronounce them but we sure will enjoy eating them.
    Love ya

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  3. i'm still laughing about your frustrations with pronouns, but it's probably not nice to laugh at you across the miles, is it?

    i'm working on getting skype set up! i'll look forward to "seeing" you soon! hang in there, mack!

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